Commercial Graduate Programme 2025

**About The Role**:
**Charge up your career**

It takes courage to challenge the ordinary. We're looking for graduates who've got the confidence, ambition and ability to charge up their career and to help drive change at Volkswagen Group UK.

With training and support to stretch your skills, take responsibility and explore your interests, our graduate programme is a great launchpad for your career. Life here is far from ordinary, it's full of unexpected challenges, opportunities and fantastic rewards.

Our two-year structured scheme gives you all the support and development you need to help reshape the way the world moves. You’ll enjoy a range of placements to develop your skills, share your ideas and be a valued member of each team.

On our Commercial Graduate Programme, you’ll spend time in our dynamic Aftersales teams, gaining essential business knowledge and ensuring our customers get the best possible service after they’ve bought one of our products.

**Group Parts Operations**
If you’re placed in the Group Parts rotation, you’ll get great experience in a highly commercial role. You’ll be involved in business casing, measuring return on investment, driving sales and supporting the tender process for the many suppliers used in Group Parts Operations.

**Business Development**
If you’re in the Business Development rotation, you’ll be driving business by looking at trends and opportunities to introduce new ideas and improve the customer experience.

**Retailer Operations**
In the Retailer Operations rotation, you’ll get a great understanding of our nationwide network of dealerships. You’ll work closely with them, so they understand our goals and can provide excellent experiences to increase customer loyalty.

**Intelligence**
In this placement you’ll be analysing internal and external data to inform our aftersales activities and drive recommendations and improvement.

**What do you need?**

We're looking for people with curiosity and drive to succeed and who seek out opportunities to learn, develop and stretch themselves. If you share that desire and want to be a part of our success, you're a good match.

We believe all employees should have a good work/life balance and wouldn't want you to spend a large amount of time commuting, so we require our graduates to be based within a reasonable distance from our Milton Keynes head office. You'll also need to have the right to work in the UK.

**What's in it for you?**

As a Graduate, you'll start on a £31,800 salary and get a new car every six months (as long as you have a full, clean UK driving licence). You'll also receive 27 days' holiday - plus bank holidays - a discretionary bonus, pension scheme, a range of flexible benefits, employee well-being support, an on-site restaurant, cycle to work scheme and shopping/entertainment discounts.

**What's the assessment process?**

The final step in the journey would be for you to attend a face-to-face assessment centre in early 2025, where you will take part in a range of activities based on real-life tasks. You'll also have a chance to meet some of our managers and the current graduate cohort.

**About Us**:
**Who we are**

Volkswagen Group UK is one of the most successful automotive manufacturers in the world, with some of the most iconic brands the industry has ever seen. But we're also a great Sales, Marketing, Digital and Tech operation in our own right. We employ over 900 people, supporting a network of more than 600 retailers, and manage all aspects of vehicle sales for our six brands, from ordering and importing, to advertising and aftersales.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join our industry as it undergoes the biggest transformation for over 100 years. With digitalisation, electrification and driverless mobility all coming to the market, we’re actively looking for people with new skills, knowledge and outlooks.

A brave new world demands brave, new, diverse people; so whatever your background, we would love to hear from you. We know that different perspectives and thought processes are vital as our industry goes through an exciting period of change.